The thing is, wh..sh, I assume that you are incredibly foreign while I simultaneously believe you are very western.Obviously, if you go to burningman you are interested in western forms of art and expression and are basically a creature of the internet values, but you ...

I don't know what--when I try and examine this it will fall apart like gossamer, but when I stop paying attention, it will re-assemble itself.I'm this far from asking you stupid questions about your marriage...

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

Lack of spices, like most places through most of history.And peanuts are an efficient energy source.No butter involved, it is 'butter' as a description.

Have you had good peanut butter?It's usually heavily salted.

Try corn as a diet, then try peanut butter.See 'spice wars'

How the hell do you make the jump from peanut butter to a lack of spices or the spice wars?

The key motivation behind P&B sandwiches is that P&B creates a sweet sandwich of a particular flavor--not because of a lack of spices. THAT is the answer to wh..sh's question, not some condescending ramble about the roots of the flavored foods and spice trade.

People eat P&B because they like the flavor, it's cheap, easy to prepare, and its fans probably grew up with it as kids. It's also the preferred ready-made meal packs for soldiers in the US, even with access to all kinds of different flavored packs, spiced or not.

Wh..sh probably just grew up not understanding or liking the flavor. I don't like P&J either--or at least don't prefer it. Sweet sandwiches were never my thing, just as I don't like it stuff like apple chunks or grapes are put into sandwiches. Some kids loved P&B (some would only eat that). I assume it was because they liked sweet things.

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens

Lack of spices, like most places through most of history.And peanuts are an efficient energy source.No butter involved, it is 'butter' as a description.

Have you had good peanut butter?It's usually heavily salted.

Try corn as a diet, then try peanut butter.See 'spice wars'

How the hell do you make the jump from peanut butter to a lack of spices or the spice wars?

The key motivation behind P&B sandwiches is that P&B creates a sweet sandwich of a particular flavor--not because of a lack of spices. THAT is the answer to wh..sh's question, not some condescending ramble about the roots of the flavored foods and spice trade.

People eat P&B because they like the flavor, it's cheap, easy to prepare, and its fans probably grew up with it as kids. It's also the preferred ready-made meal packs for soldiers in the US, even with access to all kinds of different flavored packs, spiced or not.

Wh..sh probably just grew up not understanding or liking the flavor. I don't like P&J either--or at least don't prefer it. Sweet sandwiches were never my thing, just as I don't like it stuff like apple chunks or grapes are put into sandwiches. Some kids loved P&B (some would only eat that). I assume it was because they liked sweet things.

I've always assumed individual immortality would end up sad and tragic as you outlived all your friends and loved ones. If everyone was immortal, that would be damn dull and what about babies? When would it kick in? Would we all be geezers? Purchased immortality would result in self-selected immortals, or those who selected immortality for only the people they deemed "worthy" or of value. Ick. And if you got to choose, how do you know you chose correctly a couple hundred years down the line? I may love what's left of my family, but I don't care to associate with them now, and if I chose eplayans, we'd be drowning in snark sooner than later.

Highlander was on to something, they lopped off each other's heads, not for the Quickening, but because they were damned tired of listening to each other.

I have a few Assumptions about Heaven.If it's really heaven wouldn't Value be Pointless? Why Streets of gold and not Diamond?What if I don't like harp music?When given my new heavenly body will it be a male body again?I'm kinda of assuming you guys didn't let George Carlin in, Why?So is Jesus is still single or doe's he really get all the Nun Nookie? Fallen away nuns are still fair game right?

.......................................................................................Oh yeah, this year I was totally twerping out at the fence. ~Lonesombri

knowmad wrote:So is Jesus is still single or doe's he really get all the Nun Nookie? Fallen away nuns are still fair game right?

And you know after a life of celibacy those Nun's are wanting it too!

Why don't ya stick your head in that hole and find out? ~pieholePlan for the worst, expect the best. Make the most out of it under any conditions. If you cannot do that you will never enjoy yourself. ~CrispyDave

I think heaven is like an alpine meadow in the Rockies, only with all the pleistoscene mega-fauna intact. If you don't like that one, you get on a subway to the next heaven over. Only one stop away...I"m still waiting for the report from my legs to confirm this...

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri